Bar code on bulk mail labels

[steve]

The POSTNET bar code that Microsoft Word generates no longer qualifies
for USPS bulk mailing discounts.
Further, the bar code appears above the address and the USPS now wants
it below.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Steve,

I find it unusual that there has not been a big fuss over the bar code no
longer qualifying for bulk mailing discounts. Do you have a link or
something that points to this information?

It's not a big deal to put the bar code at the bottom of the address instead
of the top. Just add it last (put in a carriage return first) as you build
the address in the Data Merge Manager.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

The POSTNET bar code that Microsoft Word generates no longer qualifies
for USPS bulk mailing discounts.
Further, the bar code appears above the address and the USPS now wants
it below.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
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[CyberTaz]

Yeah - according to MS, USPS changes their specs too frequently for Office
to keep up-to-date, so they've just stopped trying... In fact, bar codes
have been completely yanked from 2007. I suspect 2008 will not include it
either. Have a look here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA101091591033.aspx?pid=CH10062626103
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My question to the OP would be: "Since they aren't worth the ink it takes to
print them, why bother in the first place?" If you don't use them it doesn't
matter where they would get put if you did... And they could cause the mail
to get misdirected.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[StevStam]

Thanks, Jim. That fixes the easy part, the position. But the code
itself is no longer good according to Microsoft. The following is a
quote from Microsoft: "The POSTNET bar code that Microsoft Word
generates no longer qualifies for USPS bulk mailing discounts."

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Well that is interesting news. I, too, am curious as to how Office 2008
will handle these bar codes. It would seem to be something that could and
ought to be done.

-Jim

Thanks, Jim. That fixes the easy part, the position. But the code
itself is no longer good according to Microsoft. The following is a
quote from Microsoft: "The POSTNET bar code that Microsoft Word
generates no longer qualifies for USPS bulk mailing discounts."

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info